"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable." (Henry Louis Mencken)

"It is a fine thing to face machine guns for immortality and a medal, but isn't it a fine thing, too, to face calumny, injustice and loneliness for the truth which makes men free?" (Henry Louis Mencken)

"Metaphysics: An attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible." (Henry Louis Mencken)